Gray, Spalding

1941 – He was born on the 5th day of June this year in Barrington, Rhode Island.

1984 - He based the monologue on his experiences in Southeast Asia while filming a small part in the movie “The Killing Fields”.

1990 – He published his first and only novel, Impossible Vacation.

2001 – He suffered severe injuries in a car crash while on holiday in Ireland on June of this year.

2002 - It is believed that he jumped off the side of the Staten Island Ferry. In light of a suicide attempt this year, and the fact that his mother had taken her own life in 1967, suicide was the suspected cause of death.

2004 – He is known to suffer bouts of depression in part as a result of these injuries, was declared missing on January of this year.

2005 – His unfinished final monologue was published in a hardcover edition entitled Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue.